I'm trying to use an LG HBS700 Bluetooth headset with my laptop (Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon running Xubuntu 12.10). I'm able to successfully connect the headset using the Blueman program, but when I go to pavucontrol, all I see under the "Output Devices" tab is "Speakers" and "Headphones", neither of which work with the headset.

I've tried setting the headset to both "Audio Sink" and "Headset service", but neither worked.

OK, sound worked after installing pulseaudio-module-bluetooth and restarting pulseaudio. There's one issue though - I can't control volume using the laptop's multimedia keys. When I hit up or down, the volume OSD changes but the actual sound level doesn't. In pavucontrol, I don't see any volume settings changing, for the Bluetooth headset, for the speakers/headphone jack, or for an individual program.
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srunniNov 28 '12 at 21:16

Shouldn't it be module-bluetooth-discovery (y on the end), from what I see in Google search results? Also, do other packages have to be installed in order to load those modules, and if so, which? When I run modprobe module-bluetooth-discovery or modprobe module-switch-on-connect (as root), it doesn't find the modules in question. Are these "modules" different from kernel modules? And should the existing line load-module module-switch-on-port-available in /etc/pulse/default.pa be removed/commented out?
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srunniNov 28 '12 at 22:32

@srunni: we're not talking of kernel modules here. It is Pulse Audio Modules. These are listed with pacmd list-modules. In case you like to switch to another port of your sound device the module-switch-on-port-available may be used.
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TakkatNov 29 '12 at 7:39

@srunni: there is no y. Try loading the modules with pacmd load-module module-bluetooth-discover and pacmd load-module module-switch-on-connect. In case you get an error post it here. Else they should be listed with pacmd list-modules. Then you may edit the default.pa as said in my answer to always load them.
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TakkatNov 29 '12 at 18:15

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@Zzzach... still not all flavors or releases of Ubuntu load this module by default. Of course once your already had this line in your default.pa you should not add it again. Your issue may be a different one then.
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TakkatFeb 22 at 7:05